In advance of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect on May 25, the UK’s Data Protection Bill received Royal Assent on May 23, to become the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

The DPA 2018 is designed to:
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On February 8, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a joint statement on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

GDPR will go into effect in the UK on May 25. The GDPR is designed to strengthen the rules governing data protection across the European Union and will be regulated and enforced in the UK by the ICO, as part of its continuing mandate for the responsibility of data protection regulation.
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